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seahouse wrote:

slothbag wrote:Thanks for the excellent replies, great suggestion re the ballast tank and silt or added weight.. i'll look into it.

There is a carpeted panel that fits back there to protect the steering mechanism and totally enclose the area - maybe yours is lost or it wasn't present on the earlier M's?

- Brian.

I jammed the cushion back under the panel, which doesn't go all the way to the top of the aft berth cushion. It caught on one of the bolts of the steering linkage and prevented the bar from moving more than about 6 inches back and forth. The bolt did poke a small hole in the cushion, but not too bad. I did have to take the panel off once when I ran a solar panel cable, but I put it back.